Conflict and complexity in value theory

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 443-453

  Magendanz, Douglas ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 4043062079     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:INQU.0000019038.46080.f3     Document Type: Review

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2. See Isaiah Berlin, "Equality," in Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (New York: The Viking Press, 1978), pp. 86-89. See also John Rawls, "The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus," in Samuel Freeman, ed., John Rawls: Collected Papers (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 424-425; and John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 36-37.
3. See Isaiah Berlin, "Equality," in Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (New York: The Viking Press, 1978), pp. 86-89. See also John Rawls, "The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus," in Samuel Freeman, ed., John Rawls: Collected Papers (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 424-425; and John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 36-37.
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19. See Pettit op. cit.
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21. See Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
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25. Ibid., p. 384 n.20.
26. Ibid., p. 99.
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37. I wish to thank Philip Pettit for his comments on an early draft of this paper and Thomas Magnell for his very helpful advice.